Go up to Hilkiah the high priest
Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a
priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the
prophet, ( Jeremiah 1:1
Jeremiah
1:2 ) , whom an Arabic writer F12 takes to be the same
with this; but it is not likely:
that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house
of the Lord
which the people voluntarily offered for the repairing of it;
this he would have the priest take an account of, that the sum
total might be known; his meaning is, that he should take it out
of the chest in which it was put, and count it, that it might be
known what it amounted to; see ( 2 Kings 12:9
2 Kings
12:10 ) , some understand this of melting and coining the
silver thus given
which the keepers of the door have gathered of the
people:
who were Levites, ( 2 Chronicles
34:9 ) , either porters of the door, or rather the
treasurers, as the Targum; the keepers of the vessels of the
sanctuary, that had the care of them, as the Jewish commentators
generally interpret it.